Download or read book Risk Models for Returns to Housing Instability Among Families Experiencing Homelessness written by Zachary Shaw Glendening and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Family Routines and Rituals written by Barbara H. Fiese and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While family life has conspicuously changed in the past fifty years, it would be a mistake to conclude that family routines and rituals have lost their meaning. In this book Barbara H. Fiese, a clinical and developmental psychologist, examines how the practices of diverse family routines and the meanings created through rituals have evolved to meet the demands of today’s busy families. She discusses and integrates various research literatures and draws on her own studies to show how family routines and rituals influence physical and mental health, translate cultural values, and may even be used therapeutically. Looking at a range of family activities from bedtime stories to special holiday meals, Fiese relates such occasions to significant issues including parenting competence, child adjustment, and relational well-being. She concludes by underscoring the importance of flexible approaches to family time to promote healthier families and communities.

Download or read book Family Homelessness written by Karleen Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. This book examines the multiple factors which contribute to family homelessness, and uses quantitative and qualitative analyses to identify those factors which represent the major supports and barriers to homeless exit and housing stability. Results show that while family homelessness is not caused by a single issue (but a combination of issues including alcohol/substance abuse, untreated mental illness, domestic violence, family configuration, lack of community or social supports, and/or lack of affordable housing options) community and social supports provide the single most significant impact on the ability of families to exit homelessness and maintain stable housing. Quantitative data suggests that investing in community/social supports for homeless families could facilitate their exit from homelessness and increase housing stability for families at risk, while reducing those supports might increase homelessness. Qualitative data indicates that supportive relationships are instrumental to understanding that while homelessness is a terrible experience, those who experience homelessness are not terrible people. Furthermore, recognizing that a loss of housing does not necessarily mean the loss of one's symbolic representation of 'home' could assist families in viewing homelessness as a transformational learning experience rather than a traumatic failure.

Download or read book Homelessness written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Distinguishing Between Homeless and Unstably Housed Men on Risk Factors for Homelessness written by Valerie L. Holton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explored the risk factors for homelessness in single men, the largest group of people experiencing homelessness and a group about which little is known regarding their risks for homelessness. A case control design was used to differentiate risk factors between men who were homeless and men who were unstably housed. Risk factors included cumulative risk, negative life events, and demographic factors. Two models were tested using discriminant function analysis (DFA). The Cumulative Risk Model did not significantly differentiate between the two groups. However, the Negative Life Events Model yielded one discriminant function that significantly differentiated between the groups and correctly classified approximately 72.4% of the overall cases. Negative life events regarding the loss of housing, unstable housing, and family conflict/disruption were the most important discriminating variables. Furthermore, homeless men were associated with more experiences of loss of housing and family conflict/disruption, and with fewer experiences of housing instability. Implications for policy, social work practice, and research are discussed.

Download or read book Permanent Supportive Housing written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-08-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuations in the economy and changes in the demographics of and attitudes toward poor and disenfranchised citizens. In recent decades, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the philanthropic community have worked hard to develop and implement programs to solve the challenges of homelessness, and progress has been made. However, much more remains to be done. Importantly, the results of various efforts, and especially the efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans in recent years, have shown that the problem of homelessness can be successfully addressed. Although a number of programs have been developed to meet the needs of persons experiencing homelessness, this report focuses on one particular type of intervention: permanent supportive housing (PSH). Permanent Supportive Housing focuses on the impact of PSH on health care outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. The report also addresses policy and program barriers that affect the ability to bring the PSH and other housing models to scale to address housing and health care needs.

Download or read book Housing Instability Among Head Start Families written by Samanta Boddapati and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homelessness Among U S Veterans written by Jack Tsai and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges facing military veterans who return to civilian life in the United States are persistent and well documented. But for all the political outcry and attempts to improve military members' readjustments, veterans of all service eras face formidable obstacles related to mental health, substance abuse, employment, and — most damningly — homelessness. Homelessness Among U.S. Veterans synthesizes the new glut of research on veteran homelessness — geographic trends, root causes, effective and ineffective interventions to mitigate it — in a format that provides a needed reference as this public health fight continues to be fought. Codifying the data and research from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) campaign to end veteran homelessness, psychologist Jack Tsai links disparate lines of research to produce an advanced and elegant resource on a defining social issue of our time.

Download or read book Life After Transitional Housing for Homeless Families written by Martha R. Burt and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the significant investment HUD has made in transitional housing (TH) programs since enactment of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist. Act, it is important to evaluate the effectiveness of these programs. TH has been an important element of HUD¿s efforts to respond to the housing needs of homeless families and individuals through a continuum of care. This study examines whether TH makes a difference in the lives of the families it serves and whether it is more effective for some homeless people than others. This study follows 179 families in 36 TH programs within five communities for one year after leaving the program. TH programs, and certain characteristics of the programs, were found to be associated with positive outcomes. Illustrations.

Download or read book Toward Understanding Homelessness written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Families Housing Experiences Within Contexts of Stress written by Kerrie Ann Fanning and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiences of homelessness and housing instability have implications for child and family well-being across the life course. In this three-paper dissertation, I explore a variety of housing experiences for families within additionally stressful contexts. First, I review the existing literature regarding infants' and toddlers' experiences of homelessness, a consequential developmental time period, and a critical gap in homelessness scholarship. Second, using qualitative analyses, I investigate families' descriptions of their experiences of housing instability and homelessness in addition to experiencing the incarceration of a parent, addressing family-identified challenges and supports. Lastly, I address relations between parents' well-being and children's stress within families living doubled-up during the COVID-19 pandemic, comparing across doubled-up status for parent mental health symptoms, emotions, behaviors, and employment, and child stress and adaptive behaviors. Following the three papers, I discuss implications for future research, policy, and practice within the field of family homelessness and housing instability.

Download or read book Housing First written by Deborah Padgett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique portrayal of Housing First as a 'paradigm shift' in homeless services. Since 1992, this approach has spread nationally and internationally, changing systems and reversing the usual continuum of care. The success of Housing First has few parallels in social and human services.

Download or read book Homelessness written by Cameron Parsell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homelessness is a punishing condition that inflicts unquestionable harm on those who experience it. It is also a social problem that starkly lays bare deep societal failure. As Cameron Parsell shows, society – along with the public policy measures intended to address it – treats being homeless as an identity, casting those who experience homelessness as fundamentally different from “us.” To be homeless is to face daily victimization, to be a recipient of someone else’s care, and to have autonomy taken away. Parsell argues that we have at our disposal the knowledge and momentum to demonstrably reduce and even end homelessness. Our first task is to confront the fact that homelessness is a relatively predictable phenomenon that disproportionately impacts people who are failed by society in myriad ways. We must respond to the problem in ways that understand and thus do not recreate the dehumanizing conditions experienced by those who are homeless. Homelessness is a choice: of how we organize society. Sketching the defining features of homelessness, this critical introduction will be a valuable resource for students studying homelessness, housing, marginality, and poverty across the social sciences and social work.

Download or read book Homelessness Health and Human Needs written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while hard to pin down exactly, is rising. In light of this, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to find out whether existing health care programs were ignoring the homeless or delivering care to them inefficiently. This book is the report prepared by a committee of experts who examined these problems through visits to city slums and impoverished rural areas, and through an analysis of papers written by leading scholars in the field.

Download or read book How Housing Instability Occurs written by Seungbeom Kang and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to an acute shortage of affordable housing, millions of American renter households suffer from severe housing cost burdens, using over half of their incomes to pay housing costs. Along with the housing affordability problem that is commonplace in the United States, housing instability, often represented by involuntary and frequent residential mobility, is rampant among low-income renters. Scholars in many disciplines have increasingly expressed concern about the prevalence of housing instability because of its detrimental effects on low-income people’s lives. Housing instability negatively affects education environments of children, employment, mental health, social relationships, and so on. Although housing instability is becoming a widespread urban problem and a key mechanism of poverty in US cities, little is known about in what conditions housing instability occurs. Understanding the conditions in which housing instability is likely to occur is a fundamental step for researchers and policymakers to measure the varied housing needs for stable housing and to suggest effective policy approaches to providing stable housing to unsubsidized renter households. This dissertation examines the question of how household-level factors, metropolitan-level conditions, and different types of housing assistance are associated with the risk of housing instability. By analyzing a unique panel dataset built upon the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and other secondary data, this dissertation identifies subgroups vulnerable to housing instability in rental housing markets. This dissertation contains three essays, each of which is designed to examine a different aspect of housing instability. In my first essay, Why Low-Income Households Become Unstably Housed, I estimate the effects of potential household-level predictors on the likelihood of experiencing housing instability. The results reveal that changes in family employment structure, job insecurity, automobile ownership, and the number of adult family members within a household correlate with housing instability after controlling for changes in household income and housing costs—both of which are two main elements of a housing cost burden of a household. Moreover, I find that families with a greater number of children are particularly vulnerable to housing instability. These results contribute to identifying valid household-level predictors of housing instability and developing preventive policy interventions that help unsubsidized low-income households achieve housing stability. My second essay, Identifying Regional Determinants of Housing Instability, addresses one research question: Under what regional conditions are low-income renter households more likely to experience housing instability? I analyze the PSID dataset combined with multiple secondary datasets that include information about neighborhood- and metropolitan-level conditions within 252 metropolitan areas. Results reveal that low-income renter households are more likely to experience housing instability when residing in a region in which the poverty rate and car dependency are high. In particular, housing instability is likely to occur when households have no vehicle and reside in a region where a large proportion of commuters use automobiles. The third essay, To Whom Housing Policies Provide Stable Housing, examines potential variations in the roles of housing programs in alleviating housing instability. Specifically, this study focuses on exploring the associations between the five statuses related to receiving or leaving housing assistance and subsequent housing instability experience. These statuses include households that: (1) reside in a public or project-based subsidized housing (PH) unit; (2) leave a PH unit; (3) receive a Housing Choice Voucher (HCV); (4) leave the HCV program; and (5) are unsubsidized but income-eligible for housing assistance. Results reveal that, although all housing assistance recipients are less likely to experience housing instability than income-eligible unsubsidized households, HCV recipients are relatively more likely to experience housing instability than PH residents. Moreover, those who made their transitions off the assistance do not significantly differ from income-eligible unsubsidized households. These findings contribute to expanding the knowledge about the double-sided roles of tenant-based housing programs; on the one hand, the programs can encourage program participants to leave concentrated poverty areas. If housing consistency is lost, on the other hand, the programs can make them exposed to a wide variety of market-related risks that could destabilize their housing circumstances. The findings from the essays have several implications for housing policy and planning practice. The first two essays suggest a set of household-level and metropolitan-level determinants of housing instability. These results suggest subgroups of the low-income population that are more vulnerable to housing instability in private rental housing markets. The third essay provides housing assistance statuses that heighten the risk of housing instability among subsidized households. These findings would help public housing authorities, and urban planners (1) predict the size and type of households vulnerable to housing instability, (2) improve strategies to allocate limited resources for alleviating housing instability, and (3) develop alternative ways to help low-income households achieve housing stability.

Download or read book America s Youngest Outcasts written by Ellen L. Bassuk and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Midst of Plenty written by Marybeth Shinn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Nan Roman, President and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness This book explains how to end the U.S. homelessness crisis by bringing together the best scholarship on the subject and sharing solutions that both local communities and national policy-makers can apply now. In the Midst of Plenty shifts understanding of homelessness away from individual disability to larger contexts of poverty, income inequality, housing affordability, and social exclusion. Homelessness experts Shinn and Khadduri provide guidance on how to end homelessness for people who experience it and how to prevent so many people from reaching the point where they have no alternative to sleeping on the street or in emergency shelters. The authors show that we know how to end homelessness—if we devote the necessary resources to doing so. In the Midst of Plenty: Homelessness and What to Do About It is an excellent resource for policy-makers, professionals in the homeless services system, and anyone else who wants to end homelessness. It also can serve as a text in undergraduate or masters courses in public policy, sociology, psychology, social work, urban studies, or housing policy. "The knowledgeable and thoughtful authors of this book—two brilliant women who know as much as anyone in the country about the nature of homelessness and its solutions—have done a great service by taking us on a journey through the history of homelessness, how our responses have changed, and how we can end it." —Nan Roman, President and CEO National Alliance to End Homelessness. "Shinn and Khadduri's new book is a thorough yet concise examination of what we know about the nature and causes of homelessness, and the crucial lessons learned. This critically important work provides a roadmap to restoring basic housing and income security as viable policy options, in the face of our daunting inequality divide that otherwise threatens millions with destitution and homelessness." —Dennis Culhane, Dana and Andrew Stone Professor of Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania "Marybeth Shinn and Jill Khadduri have combined their significant expertise to create an essential guide about the history of modern homelessness and to offer a clear path forward to end this American tragedy. Their policy recommendations on ending homelessness are culled from the best about what we know works." —Barbara Poppe, Executive Director US Interagency Council on Homeless, 2009-2014